Article: City Report Defends Con Ed for Key Choice in Blackout - New York Times

Lawyers for the Bloomberg administration are defending Consolidated Edisons decision not to shut down the electrical network that failed in western Queens last July, causing a nine-day blackout. While critical of Con Edison over all, a 247-page report given to City Council members yesterday disputes a key finding by state regulators, who concluded that the utilitys decision to try to keep the entire network running after parts of it began to fail was a mistake that prolongedthe blackout. The power failure affected an estimated 174,000 people.The report, prepared by Couch White, an Albany law firm hired by the city, wassubmitted to the states Public Service Commission on March 2.Despite ...

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